Bonus Coffee Buzzwords
For paid subscribers: deleted scenes from last week's lexicon. Musings on the words "Sustainability", "Specialty", and the old-school buzzwords like "Artisan" and "Gourmet".
When writing last week’s article on coffee buzzwords, I originally started drafting my own entries for each of the shortlisted words. I quickly realised that doing so would double the length of an already long piece, but at the same time it felt like a waste to delete them.
Therefore, I saved them for you, my esteemed supporters. Please enjoy these deleted scenes from the Lexicon of Coffee Buzzwords.
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